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HOSPITALIZED. Isaac Asimov, 63, sci-fi and nonfiction word factory, with 286 books to his credit and 14 more at his publishers; resting comfortably after triple-bypass heart surgery; in New York City...
Billy Idol: Dancing with Myself (Tobe Hooper). A little tune about solitary recreation becomes a sci-fi nightmare of metropolitan devastation...
Your story about General Paul X. Kelley's conversation with a wounded Marine [Nov. 7] reveals the general's naiveté. In the language of the Marine Corps, Semper Fi does not mean "always faithful." The expression connotes something rather different...
...expression is from World War II. When Marines in the Pacific said "Sem per fi, Mac, " they frequently meant "Look pal, you 've got to take care of yourself out here...
...Star Wars speech last spring, Ronald Reagan suggested that instead of deterring nuclear attack exclusively by threatening nuclear retaliation, the U.S. should build a kind of electronic shield to "intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reach our own soil." Last week that grandiose sci-fi vision moved closer to becoming U.S. policy. Reagan and his National Security Council approved in principle a fiveyear, $21 billion plan to begin more rapidly developing an arsenal of space weapons, in particular orbiting "ray guns" that would fire intense beams of energy at enemy missiles. Said Edward Teller, the father...